[VIDEO INCLUDED] October is Menopause Awareness Month. In recognition, I want to share this short 20-minute video that you can do if you are one of the countless women who suffer from hot flashes during this time of life. It includes some nice, calming breathwork and yoga poses that you can practice in the midst …
Healthy Aging
Yoga for Empowered Aging
Is it important to you to remain strong and active as you age? Yoga can help! But what should you be focusing on in your yoga practice to maximize its benefits for empowered aging? Read on to find out! Why It Matters Our biological aging is more under our control than many of us think, …
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
How has your sleep been lately? If it could be better, you’ll want to read this blog post. It’s full of some of the most interesting research I gathered from the book, Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker, which was recommended reading for Harvard Medical School’s Lifestyle Medicine + Wellness Coaching course that I completed …
Are You Taking Your Lifestyle Medicine?
I am proud to share that earlier this year I completed Harvard Medical School’s Executive Education Lifestyle Medicine + Wellness Coaching course. Since I have loved sharing healthy lifestyle resources for years, I thought I would make it official and get a certification. I loved the course, and spending time with people from around the …
5 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Perimenopause
Now that I’m comfortably into my 50s, I can look back over the past dozen years and take stock of everything I learned during perimenopause–knowledge I wish I’d had before the roller coaster ride that is that time of life. I just was not adequately prepared for all the shifts and changes (something I hear …
The Latest Science on Yoga and Arthritis
If you’re an older yogi you might already have arthritis, or at least it is a concern and you know you need to keep up your muscle strength and keep moving your joints. If you’re younger, you might be thinking this blog post doesn’t apply to you. However, it is my belief that it is …
What Oprah And I Know For Sure
There is so much I wish I had known in my early 40s, at the beginning of my own perimenopause journey. I spent ten years doing a lot of research on the different symptoms I was experiencing, all the while thinking how nice it would’ve been if I could have found all this information in …
Yoga, Meditation + Neuroscience
The research is in! For ages people have been espousing the benefits of yoga and meditation–but without having any scientific proof that they actually work. Luckily, that has been changing in the past decade. I recently attended an online conference on Yoga + Neuroscience where a number of scientists presented their research on yoga and …
Yoga to Soothe Your Sciatica
Got a pain in the butt??? At some point in your life chances are good that you are going to have a bout of sciatica. Maybe you already have. I’ve been working with a few private yoga clients lately who are dealing with this issue, so I thought it might be a good time to …
Yoga and Your Feet
[VIDEO INCLUDED] I’ve been placing a special emphasis on the feet lately in the work I’m doing with some of my private clients. Let’s face it, for most of us, when it comes to the feet, it’s out of sight, out of mind. But the feet are our foundation–in yoga poses and in all our …